Centenary of Schiller's birth celebrated in Europe and North America

11/10/1859

The one hundredth anniversary of the birth of German poet Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) was marked with celebrations in German, the United States, and the United Kingdom. In London, for example, a torchlight procession of around 15,000 people, most of them ex-patriot Germans was held at the Crystal Palace. (By John Osborne)

Source Citation:

The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, Lee and Company, 1861), 405.